It’s remarkable how much the foods we eat can impact our brain chemistry and emotions. What and when we eat can make the difference between feeling anxious and staying calm and in control. But most of us don’t realize how much our diets influence our moods, thoughts, and feelings until we make a change.
In The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings, you’ll find four unique antianxiety diets designed to help you address nutritional deficiencies that may be at the root of your anxiety and enjoy the many foods that foster increased emotional balance. This easy-to-use guide helps you choose the best plan for you and incorporates effective anxiety-busting foods and nutrients. You’ll soon be on the path to freeing yourself from anxiety—and enjoying an improved overall mood, better sleep, fewer cravings, and optimal health—the natural way!
In The Antianxiety Food Solution, you’ll discover:
- How to assess your diet for anxiety-causing and anxiety-calming foods and nutrients
- Foods and nutrients that balance your brain chemistry
- Which anxiety-triggering foods and drinks you may need to avoid
- Easy lifestyle changes that reduce anxiety and increase happiness
“[This book] fills an important gap in the popular literature on anxiety. It provides clear, helpful guidelines for utilizing nutrition to overcome anxiety.”
—Edmund Bourne, PhD, author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
Trudy Scott, CN, has a nutrition practice that focuses on food, mood, and women’s health. She lectures extensively, both at live events and via teleseminars. She is president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals and a member of Anxiety Disorders Association of America, the Alliance for Addiction Solutions, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She lives in the greater Sacramento, CA, area.
Foreword writer James Lake, MD, is president of the International Network of Integrative Mental Health and author of the Textbook of Integrative Mental Health Care. He lives in Carmel, CA.
Published by New Harbinger Publications www.newharbinger.com, June 2, 2011.
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The above material is from the back cover of the book and serves as a great synopsis – so you can calm your anxious mind one meal at a time! Please let me know how it goes when you make some of these changes.
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I love the idea of fewer cravings and better sleep. Your recommendation for Opti-zinc and Vitamin B6 sure helped me in the sleep department!
This is wonderful to hear Sue!
Trudy,
It is so obvious once we read your article how important an impact our food choices make to our lives.
As they say Trudy – you are what you eat! Congrats on your amazing book
thanks Heidi – I appreciate the support!
I really appreciate that you link food with its direct outputs of energy and happiness, amongst others. One day, I’d love to have you talk to my peeps — I think diet and exercise are integral to having a balanced, organized, and fulfilled life! 🙂
Carmen
I would love to share my message with your peeps – you are spot on! Diet and exercise are integral to having a balanced, organized, and fulfilled life!
Trudy
As always you have such great information. I know that the tyrosine and tryptophan made a huge difference for me, as did eliminating the gluten! Amazing how eating a little gluten will just make me really cranky! Too often I think we are looking for some pill or some quick fix and we are just ignoring that our food can be our medicine – with no side effects!
Terry
Great to get your feedback on your response to gluten and the amino acids tyrosine and tryptophan – I’m so pleased you saw such a big difference!
Trudy